The inaugural address.
[Update a few minutes later]
It strikes me that Bill is the anti-Obama. That is, his complete antithesis.
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Run, Ashley, Run
A campaign that would be a Bluegrass State Republican’s dream.
The Inconvenient Facts Of A Cop Killer
I woke up this morning and turned on local news, as we almost always do, for weather and traffic. But it was non-stop breaking news about someone I’d never heard of named Chris Dorner, though the newscasters discussed him as though we were supposed to know who he was. Well, it turns out that he’s a hate-filled Leftist nutbag. That is, he parrots the mainstream media:
Dorner also lamented the fact that George Zimmerman was not murdered by Trayvon Martin. NBC injected race into that story, and may have helped drive a disgraced cop over the edge.
It’s pretty clear that Dorner is disturbed. It’s also pretty clear that the media and left have fueled his madness. His writing reads like a regurgitation of media narratives he could pick up on any mainstream leftist web site or media outlet. The same media are now censoring his manifesto. This comes just a day after news broke that another leftist gunman used leftwing propaganda to launch an armed attack on the conservative Family Research Council. Most media have ignored that angle, too.
A couple of days before that, a mass killer confessed to being taught to hate white people in college. That hasn’t become a media narrative, either.
If there’s no Tea Party angle and the media can’t make one up, they’re just not interested in reporting all of the facts.
Because everyone knows that the only “haters” are the Tea Partiers. Can’t disrupt the narrative.
[Update a few minutes later]
Sooper Mexican has the whole story, which the media, including apparently even KFI, don’t want you to know.
You’d think that John and Ken would be all over this. I guess we’ll find out this afternoon.
Earth-Like Exoplanets
Right next door?
Maybe it’s more motivation to develop interstellar propulsion, but we’re still a long way from it, and thirteen light years is still a long way away.
Ted Cruz, One
The fascist mayor of the Windy City, Zero.
Rand Paul
That is an epic rant on how the Leftists are pro-choice only on one issue, and anti-choice on every other one.
I have to say, I’ve rarely heard him say anything with which I disagree.
“Safety Is The Number One Priority”
Ray LaHood, who I won’t miss, is right on cue. As I note in comments, someone ought to write a book about that.
Foolish Thoughts
…from a hoplophobic college professor. As Glenn writes, people thought about quitting when blacks were admitted to universities, too.
Arab Spring Update
Egypt’s government (such as it is) tells its people to eat less:
We are watching something unique and terrible in modern history, namely the disintegration of a society of 80 million people, with the prospect of real hunger–a self-made famine brought about by social and political disaster rather than crop failure or war. It is horrific and dangerous. Those (like the Council on Foreign Relations’ Steven Cook) who maliciously accuse me of wanting Egypt to fail might as well accuse oncologists of wanting their patients to die of cancer. No-one proposes to cough up $20 to $30 billion a year to bail out Egypt — the taxpayers have enough troubles of their own. Instead, the establishment goes through the motions of prescribing macroeconomic measures to the Egyptian government which imply starvation at the micro level — and wonders why all the parties in Egyptian politics won’t play together nicely.
Sadly, Egypt isn’t the only country with problems in the Arab world.
Political Children
Chris Rock thinks that Barack Obama is his dad.